Twins and Duality in Early Modern Representation
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 4 August 2026
- ISBN 9781041085812
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages204 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 Illustrations, black & white; 11 Halftones, black & white 700
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Short description:
Twins and Duality in Early Modern Representation investigates the complex and paradoxical discourse surrounding concepts of twinship in texts written in the early modern period, where twins were considered both miraculous and uncanny.
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Twins and Duality in Early Modern Representation investigates the complex and paradoxical discourse surrounding concepts of twinship in texts written in the early modern period, where twins were considered both miraculous and uncanny.
This book explores midwifery manuals, physicians’ texts, and pamphlets, as well as drama, poetry, creative prose, and ballads, and traces how both cultural beliefs and medical practice affect the depiction of twins in literary representation. Beliefs concerning the conception of twins also bring into consideration contemporary gender politics, with notions like superfetation revealing anxiety surrounding women’s rumoured sexual incontinence, biological mystery, and fidelity, and thereby material issues of inheritance. This innovative research is central to providing an analysis of the intellectual and popular conceptions centred on twins in the period and argues that discourses of twinship are ultimately utilised to interrogate dominant cultural concerns, including identity, selfhood, sexuality, legal rights, and gender politics.
Bringing important insight into early modern literature and culture, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars in the fields of early modern literary studies, gender, history of obstetrics, medical humanities, and classical reception.
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Fertility and excess: twin conception, pregnancy, and birth; 2. Unnatural connections: twins, monstrosity, and incest; 3. Cruel brothers: competition and misogyny in fraternal twins; 4. Self and other: identity and twinship; 5. Disruptive doubles: twins, identity, and desire; 6. Figurative twinship: homopoetics and homosociality; Conclusion: early modern twins and duality; Index
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